Security and Communication Networks

Special Issue on
Software-Defined Networking:
Establishing Security, Privacy, and Trust in
the Network

CALL FOR PAPERS

In recent years, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has attracted great interest Lead Guest Editor
from both academia and industry. The objective of this technology is to reduce costs Raquel Lacuesta, University of
by simplification, automation, and virtualization. SDN makes the customization of Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
the networks easy, reduces the set-up time, and facilitates network deployment with a lacuesta@unizar.es
right quality of service. SDN promises to dramatically simplify network management
and enable innovation through network programmability. While many efforts are Guest Editors
currently being made to standardize this emerging paradigm, careful attention needs Danda B. Rawat, Howard University,
to be also paid to the security and privacy aspects of SDN. Washington, USA
danda.rawat@howard.edu
SDN security needs to be built into the architecture and delivered as a service
to protect the availability, integrity, and privacy of all connected resources and Guangjie Han, Hohai University,
information. In SDN, network security can be enhanced by means of global visibility Changzhou, China
of the network state. For example, the logically centralized control plane can easily hanguangjie@gmail.com
solve a conflict. However, the separation of the control and data planes opens security
challenges, such as denial of service (DoS) attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and Iván-García Magariño, University of
saturation attacks. In addition, the centralized controller is a high-profit target for an Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
attacker; the northbound and southbound interfaces are vulnerable also to threats ivangmg@unizar.es
that could degrade the availability, performance, and integrity of the network.
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, City
The aim of the special issue is to present leading edge work concerning privacy University of London, London, UK
protection issues, trust models, and security challenges in the field of Software rajarajan.city@gmail.com
Defined Networking.
Manuscript Due
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: Friday, 28 July 2017
Security modelling and threat in SDN
First Round of Reviews
Software-defined security for SDN architecture
Friday, 20 October 2017
Trust models between third party applications and the controller in SDN
Traffic and resource isolation protocols for SDN Publication Date
Privacy protection in SDN Friday, 15 December 2017
Privacy policy framework for SDN
Establishment of trust models and trust boundaries in SDN
Interface Security protection on Application-Control Programming Interface
A-CPI and I-CPI Identity management protocols for SDN users and
components
Access control mechanisms for all components and users of SDN
Effective protocols for building authentication, authorization and accounting
implementations in SDN
Security architectures for SDN
Security protocols for SDN
Privacy-preserving data mining for SDN
Information sharing and data protection in SDN
Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in SDN
Risk management in SDN environments
Mechanisms to enforce privacy and trust in SDN
Energy/cost/efficiency of security in SDNs
Trust, reputation and policy management in SDNs
Privacy-preserving data access in SDNs

Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at
http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/scn/snspt/.